William Rice
Also Known As: Bill Rice
Biography: William Rice was a member of the avant-garde art scene in the East Village in New York City for many years. A painter, film actor, and an unaffiliated scholar, Bill Rice was one of the central figures in the various bohemian enclaves that gathered and overlapped in the Lower East Side of the 1960s.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Vermont, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: October 17, 1931
Age: 93 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: January 23, 2006
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Coffee and Cigarettes
Overview: Coffee And Cigarettes is a collection of eleven films from cult director Jim Jarmusch. Each film hosts star studded cast of extremely unique individuals who all share the common activities of conversing while drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-03-12
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Decoder
Overview: F.M. discovers that different sonic frequencies induce different patterns of behaviour in listeners, first in his own studio but later in the local "H-Burger" restaurant where the passive muzak appears to be wiping people's emotions.
Genres: Horror Mystery Science Fiction
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1984-02-19
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Vortex
Overview: A film noirish atmosphere is created to show detective Lunch (a popular underground musician and poet) plow her way through the plans of a corporate businessman who seeks government defense contracts through real "corporate wars" and the manipulation of politicians.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-09-01
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Rain
Overview: Michael Keenan's film Rain takes us in from the main title to the payoff of its namesake. The heat and the throbbing music provide the indolent rhythm of the troubled life of Alex the cabdriver. The story is simple: New York as Hell. The noise, the sensory intrusions and the blistering heat don't stop those who can't leave from going about their business, forcing them into their own worlds sometimes to extreme degrees. Alex keeps moving, her taxi as metaphor, and waiting. Waiting is an active verb here. The sound effects, score, and chaotic images of New York captured by Robert LoScalzo come alive as the workings of Alex's interior anguish as well as the real exterior of the City.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Thunder II
Overview: Indian sheriff Thunder is transferred to a small town in the desert. He learns that the corrupt deputy is paid by the drug mob. To protect himself, the deputy sets a trap for Thunder and gets him convicted as dealer. Thunder manages to break out of the brutal prison camp and takes bloody revenge. However he cannot sufficiently protect his pregnant wife.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1987-03-16
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Subway Riders
Overview: A psychotic saxophone player lures victims to deserted spots with his music and then guns them down.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-04-02
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Sleepwalk
Overview: When Nicole, a young copy-shop employee, is hired to translate an ancient Chinese manuscript, she soon finds that the document has strange powers that little by little begin to exert an eerie influence over her life.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-09-09
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One Last Thing...
Overview: Sixteen-year-old Dylan is dying of cancer. When a charitable organization offers to grant Dylan his final wish, the teen has a surprising request: to meet supermodel Nikki Sinclair. Much to his mother's dismay, Dylan, with the help of his best friends, goes to New York to fulfill his dream.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-12
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Stray Dogs
Overview: A fan tries to get an artist's attention by literally coming apart.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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G-Man
Overview: An exploration of social schizophrenia in which terrorists consult their mothers before planting bombs, and the head of the New York City bomb squad succumbs to his dominatrix.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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Manhattan Love Suicides
Overview: A series of short films by Richard Kern: Stray Dogs, Woman At The Wheel, Thrust In Me, & I Hate You Now.
Genres: Drama Horror Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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The Trap Door
Overview: A Nietzschian parable on the fate of innocence, THE TRAP DOOR follows the mishaps of Jeremy (John Ahearn) as he is fired by his boss (Jenny Holzer), gets laughed out of court by Judge Gary Indiana, loses his girlfriend to sleazy Richard Prince, is hustled by prospective employer (Bill Rice) and mauled by predatory bird-women. Finally, he seeks the help of a shrink (the legendary Jack Smith) who turns out to be the most demented of all.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-09-01
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Doomed Love
Overview: Depressed after losing his lover a long time ago, Andre visits a psychiatrist. While in the doctor's waiting room, he strikes up a friendship with Lois, the doctor's receptionist, and later with Lois' husband, Bob. Although the couple wants to help Andre recover from his depression, Andre finds himself unable to pull his life out of the past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-10-23
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Last Supper
Overview: In an empty lot in Harlem, an elite group of New Yorkers prepares for a book-signing party given in honor of a writer who never shows up. Local residents, dealing with the practicality of life, look on as the guests obsess about identity, status, and success.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-08-02
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The Deflowering
Overview: A dystopian future in which bodily contact is taboo and all children are conceived artificially. As a result, allergies are out of control and flowers are considered poisonous. Amidst this chaos, one couple decides to have a baby the old fashioned way and it causes an uproar.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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The Offenders
Overview: A punk savage satire about a kidnapping.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-02
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Letters to Dad
Overview: The almost lyrical Letters to Dad, is a meditation on authority that superimposes the spectre of Jonestown over the relatively fresh faces of the parapunk art world; the film takes on a musical form - like a 20th-century ballad composed of subliminal behavior cues, advertising testimonials, and the text of the National Enquirer
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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Jonas in the Desert
Overview: Not a documentary in the strictest sense of the word. Rather, it is a journey through the world of the artist Jonas Mekas - one of the exponents of independent U.S. movies; founder and director of the New York Anthology Film Archive.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Final Reward
Overview: A fascinating drama-document on the punk period.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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Her Name is Lisa
Overview: A Vermont farmer searches New York City for his dream girl, with his gay neighbor as his guide.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-09
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It’s Real
Overview: One of the longest handheld tracking shots in film history, It’s Real documents an hour in the street life of downtown Manhattan. Not only is it a unique record of a particular time and place—July 26, 1990, from 3:45 to 4:45 p.m. in the Lower East Side near Robert Frank’s studio (we note in a Daily News headline that after some 20 years the Zodiac killer still hasn’t been identified)—it’s also an experiment in fragmentary language, gesture, and life caught unawares. Snippets of dialogue captured in passing at phone booths and crosswalks, in alleyways, subways, and diners—chance encounters, only presumably, with people going about their day—have something of the aleatory cut-up technique of the Dadaists in the 1920s and William Burroughs and Byron Gysin in the 1950s, an effort to divine new and deeper meanings in ordinary life. — Museum of Modern Art
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Tomorrow Always Comes
Overview: A 1940s campy film noir sex romp comedy thriller. Harlem, Chinatown, Park Ave. It’s the same old story. Boy meets girl, boy gets dead, girl gets rich. Real rich. With Bill Rice, George Kuchar, James Tigger! Ferguson, Armen Ra, Mimi Gross, Megan Pearson, Mariana Newhard, Kimberly Lewis, Meghan Love, Jenny Weaver, Amalia Rosa, and Royston Scott. Music by Marc Ribot and Brett Flute. — Anthology Film Archives
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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Documents, Memory, for My Friend Bill Rice
Overview: This short video portrait of the great East Village painter, writer, and actor Bill Rice – made by his friend and colleague Tom Jarmusch – also features a memorable appearance from Gary Indiana.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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Soap
Overview: “Inspired by the prose poem by Francis Ponge, SOAP is a series of monologues and stories concerning an object to which everyone has a relationship. Through the vehicle of soap, the actors talk about a variety of other subjects: family relationships, childhood, AIDS, World War II, love. With Alex Melamid, Walter Steding, Laura Cottingham, Bill Rice, Leslie Singer, Stephen Prina, and others.” –PARTICIPANT INC
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Original Language: en
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